1. Academic workshop and SHAPE ENERGY lexicon

Our academic workshop brought together high profile scholars to discuss the foundations of a European strategic research agenda for SSH in the energy field. The event contributed to several SHAPE energy outputs including the SHAPE ENERGY Lexicon. The Lexicon contains 20 energy-SSH related terms, together with scholars’ own definitions of these terms and what differences in these definitions may mean for diversity in research methods and approaches within the energy field.

2. Annotated bibliographies

The four SHAPE ENERGY annotated bibliographies across our core energy topics contain short overviews of over 650 articles, books and reports from across SSH disciplines, outlining key results, future research areas as well as areas of very active research and potential gaps.

3. Cross-cutting theme reports

The early Platform outputs of the cross-cutting theme reports aimed to provide accessible overviews of recent research and future recommendations on four salient energy-related SSH themes:

• energy and gender
• energy and multi-stakeholder interests
• energy justice
• energy and the active consumer

4. Research design challenge

The Research Design Challenge set out to showcase how different SSH disciplines approach three scientific ‘reference problems’, namely (1) Control, (2) Change, and (3) Capacity-building in energy systems. Researchers based in 14 different European countries and representing 16 SSH disciplines came together through a SHAPE ENERGY funded call for papers and developed 13 research designs. These designs fostered interdisciplinary collaboration by channelling researchers’ attention towards the reference problem at hand, going beyond their disciplinary academic definitions and understandings.

5. ‘Advancing Energy Policy’ – Think piece collection

This open access book “Advancing Energy Policy – Lessons on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities” includes 11 papers written in collaborative author teams, as well as 3 forewords and 2 afterwords contributed by those in energy policy, practice and research. They investigated three major domains: ‘Energy as a Social Issue’, ‘Social Sciences and Humanities in Interdisciplinary Endeavours’, and ‘Interplay with Energy Policymaking Environments’ and embody an attempt to argue for how energy policy might practically be improved through better integration of energy-SSH and interdisciplinary cooperation.

6. Energy-SSH Researcher Database

This searchable, dynamic tool allows you to find researchers working in energy-related topics across the Social Sciences & Humanities, in Europe and other H2020-eligible countries. Keywords enable you to zoom in on those working on specific topics. Researchers and others can use this database to find collaborators, or add themselves in order to be found as expert partners and reviewers – indeed the European Commission and associated agencies are now using this tool.